Chapter 2
Catalogue of Stirling family members and their petty pretensions.
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The novel is a sustained satire of small-town Canadian middle-class respectability, family tyranny, and the cult of propriety.
Chapter 18
The family's horror at Valancy's marriage to Barney—class anxiety at its peak.
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